FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE x86_64 EC2 AMIs in us-east-2 not booting

[Connor Sheridan]

That's precisely the situation, yes. 32GB EBS volume. So, would either of the following work?

1. Provisioning an encrypted volume at the snapshot size, then extending the size of the volume.
2. Provisioning an unencrypted volume at the desired size.

Obviously #1 would be preferable.

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Percival <cperciva at tarsnap.com> 
Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2021 6:29 PM
To: Connor Sheridan <cws at nullsec.sh>; freebsd-cloud at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE x86_64 EC2 AMIs in us-east-2 not booting

On 4/1/21 2:57 PM, Connor Sheridan wrote:
> I've attempted to provision x86_64 instances in AWS region us-east-2 from both the Marketplace AMIs and the specific AMI ID provided by the 12.2-RELEASE announcement, and they just get stuck in an endless boot loop. Appears to load the kernel, then reboot instantly. Are there any known gotchas about provisioning this release or anything I can do to get these running?

There seems to be an issue related to encrypted disks -- possibly specifically related to creating an EBS encrypted volume which is larger than the backing snapshot.

Are you using an encrypted disk?

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